Imphal: Opposing the idea of conducting re-poll by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Manipur, an all party meeting barring the Congress was held on Saturday in which the parties reaffirmed their stand for invalidation of proxy votes and nullified the idea of holding re-poll, ahead of the meeting between the observers of Election Commission of India (ECI) and leaders of all the political parties in the State on February 21.
During the meeting, which was organized by People’s Democratic Front (PDF) at Hotel Imphal here, 10 different political parties unanimously took two key decisions regarding invalidation of rigged-votes that came to light after completion of photo comparison work and demanded that all the postal ballot papers issued to the Government employees, who were not in election duty during the January 28 polls, should be rejected by ECI, Manipur Pradesh NCP president and Opposition leader Radhabinod Koijam said while briefing journalists after the meeting.
The meeting attended by leaders of NCP, CPI, Manipur People’s Party (MPP), Naga People’s Front (NPF), CPI-M, BJP, JD-U, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and National Political Party (NPP), also demanded that the postal ballot paper list should be provided to all the political parties before February 25, Radhabinod said, adding that the meeting further deliberated on their stand for the scheduled meeting with the ECI observers. (NNN)
